Mosaics were created by: COLORED GLASS Madonna refers to: THE VIRGIN MARY At one time Ravenna was an important outpost for the Byzantine Roman Empire: TRUE Pendentives are found around which of the following: HAGIA SOPHIA What did Paul the Silentiary say about Hagia’s Sophia’s dome? IT LOOKED AS IF IT WERE SUSPENDED FROM HEAVEN What does Hagia Sophia mean? HOLY WISDOM Iconoclasm refers to which of the following? DESCTRUCTION OF IMAGES Byzantine churches were mostly centrally
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Giotto was recognized as the first genius of art in the Italian Renaissance. Giotto di Bondone was born about 1266 in the village of Vespignano‚ near Florence. His father was a small landed farmer (Marx). Cimabue‚ a well-known Florentine painter‚ discovered Giotto ’s talents. Cimabue saw the 12 year old boy sketching one of his father ’s sheep on a flat rock and was so impressed with his talent that he persuaded the father to let Giotto become his pupil (Barter26). Modern critics also see the
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windows are dark‚ but still light enough to allow us to view “biblical stories‚ legends of the saints‚ the lives of heroes like Roland and Charlemagne‚ and scenes of everyday medieval life”. Giotto’s Arena Chapel contains the frescoes of the painter Cimabue Giotto. The fresco of the Nativity is a part of the story of the virgin. The story of the incarnation and infancy of Christ begins on the Chancel Arch and continues to the middle register. The pulpit by Nicola Pisano is different from other pulpits
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Contemporary with Giovanni Pisano‚ the Florentine painter Giotto developed a manner of figurative painting that was unprecedentedly naturalistic‚ three dimensional‚ life-like and classicizing‚ when compared with that of his contemporaries and teacher Cimabue. Early Renaissance in Italy‚ 1400-1479 Italian Renaissance painting Donatello‚ David Museo Nazionale Del Bargello Donatello became renowned as the greatest sculptor of the Early Renaissance‚ his masterpieces being his Humanist and unusually
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Art 1110 Study Guide #2 (Chapters 10 through 15) • Chapter 10 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Concepts: Understand the origins of Early Christian and Byzantine art and the difference between the two Vocabulary: Catacombs Apse Transept Cruciform Nave Side Aisle Narthex Atrium (see figure 10.3 for an illustration) Clerestory Basilica Planned Church Central Planned Church Ambulatory Mosaic Process Pendentive Minaret Lunettes Images: 10.3‚ 10.4 Plan and cross section
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Italo-centic • Saw Byzantine art as negative (emotion) as well as French Gothic style • Cimabue • Marker the end of the byzantine style • Probably from Florence • His style indicates that he had absorbed elements of Classical plasticity and a late medieval tendency to express emotion through surface patterns of rich color and gold leaf as well as through content • Crucifix 1275 o In showing the dead Christ‚ Cimabue was in tune with his recent iconographic developments‚ which departed from the previously
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DUCCIO – MADONNA AND CHILD This is the first time I do the museum paper‚ that’s made me have a lot of mixing feeling‚ wondering‚ excited‚ curious… Then‚ I went to the internet to make some research in art works at Metropolitan Museum. Actually‚ I’m interested in painting for one reason is I love drawing. I made about eleven oil paintings in my whole life. My life inspired me to put my emotion into the painting‚ sometime it was sad‚ sometime it was exciting. The value of all the painting is not
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The Mural Painters of Tuscany: From Cimabue to Andrea Del Sarto. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press‚ 1980. Byers‚ Paula K. Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2.nd ed. Detroit [u.a.: Gale‚ 2004. Cole‚ Bruce. Giotto and Florentine Painting‚ 1280-1375. New York: Harper & Row‚ 1976 "Giotto Di Bondone
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+500300 B.C 580 B.C Pythagoras born 470 B.C Socrates born 427 B.C Plato born 347 B.C Plato dies 384 B.C Aristotle born 399 B.C Socrates dies 322 B.C Aristotle dies 100BC. 198 B.C Polybius born 151 B.C Ptolemy inactive 146 B.C Greece came under Roman rule 121 B.C Ptolemy first active 117 Polybius dies 120 B.C Plutarch died 106 B.C Cicero born 100 B.C Caesar ruled Rome. 7060 B.C 70 B.C Roman poet Virgil born‚ Rabbi Hillel born
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Chapter 19 From Gothic to Renaissance: 14th Century Italian Art The essentially religious view of the world that dominated medieval Europe began to change dramatically in what is called the European Renaissance. Although religion continued to occupy a primary position in the lives of Europeans‚ a growing concern with the natural world‚ the individual‚ and humanity’s worldly existence characterized the Renaissance period. The Renaissance‚ which means “rebirth‚” extends roughly from the 14th through
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